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Author Žabić, Snežana, 1974- author.

Title Broken Records Snežana Žabić
Published Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2020

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Description 1 online resource (172 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Summary In 1991, Snezana Zabic lost her homeland and most of her family's book and record collection during the Yugoslav Wars that had been sparked by Slobodan Milosevic's relentless pursuit of power. She became a teenage refugee, forced to flee Croatia and the atrocities of war that had leveled her hometown of Vukovar. She and her family remained refugees in Serbia until NATO bombed Belgrade in 1999. After witnessing the first nights of NATO's bombing, Zabic took flight again. She moved from country to country, city to city, finally settling in Chicago. She realized -- reluctantly, because she didn't want to relive the past -- that she had to write about what had happened, what she had left behind, and what she had lost. Broken Records is the story of this loss, told with unflinching honesty, free of sentimentality or sensationalism. For the very first time, we learn how it felt to be first a regular teenager during the breakup of Yugoslavia and the ensuing wars, and then a 30-something adult, perennially troubled by one's uprooted existence. Broken Records is not a neat narrative but a bit of everything -- part bildungsroman, part memoir, part political poetry, part personal pop culture compendium. And while Zabic represents a Yugoslav diasporan subject, her book also belongs to an international generation whose formative years straddle the Cold War and the global reconfiguration of wealth and power, whose lives were spent shifting from the vinyl/analog era to the cyber/digital era. This generation knows that when they were told about history ending, they were told a lie
Analysis memoir
fiction
discography
Yugoslav Wars
Notes Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
In English; includes passages of Croatian song lyrics with English translation
Description based on print version record
SUBJECT Žabić, Snežana, 1974-
Subject Yugoslavs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
Popular culture -- Croatia -- Vukovar
Refugees -- Yugoslavia -- Biography
Teenage refugees -- Yugoslavia -- Biography
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Personal narratives
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Youth
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Refugees -- Biography
Popular culture
Refugees
Teenage refugees
Youth
Yugoslavs
Croatia -- Vukovar
Illinois -- Chicago
Yugoslavia
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal narratives
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9780615949468
0615949460